scholarly journals Aptamer and rolling circle amplification-involved sandwich assay for platelet-derived growth factor-BB with absorbance analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1855-1859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Lv ◽  
Limin Guo ◽  
Qiang Zhao

An aptamer-based absorbance assay for PDGF-BB was developed by combining rolling circle amplification reaction and catalysis with horseradish peroxidase.

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (20) ◽  
pp. 8786-8792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu-Yan Yao ◽  
Xiao-Qian Yu ◽  
Yan-Jun Zhao ◽  
Ai-Ping Fan

An ultrasensitive and selective chemiluminescence assay for PDGF-BB detection using the powerful signal amplification capability of RCA and hydroxylamine-amplified AuNPs.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (47) ◽  
pp. 22456-22465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongcun Yan ◽  
Juan Li ◽  
Wenhui Li ◽  
Ye Wang ◽  
Weiling Song ◽  
...  

A one-pot method was developed to directly encapsulate horseradish peroxidase in DNA flowers during rolling circle amplification, which demonstrated enhanced biocatalytic activity and was applied to colorimetric and visual analysis.


Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 1284-1284
Author(s):  
Mario C. Rico ◽  
Joanne M. Manns ◽  
Hien Nguyen ◽  
Nicole Beharry ◽  
Meera Reddy ◽  
...  

Abstract Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease that affects a vast population worldwide with women being afflicted three times more than men. There is evidence for an increased risk of cardiovascular events in RA patients compared to the general population. These cardiovascular events may be associated with the chronic inflammatory state in which activation of coagulation leads to thrombin generation. Our laboratory has evidence that thrombospondin-1 (TSP1), an adhesive molecule that plays a major role in RA, promotes thrombin generation on the surface of a monocytic cell line (Isordia-Salas et al, Thromb Res.2005;116(6)). We also have documented that disrupting the TSP1 interaction on human neutrophils prevents the development of erosive arthritis in an experimental animal model (Manns et al, Arthritis and Rheumatism54(8), 2006). This observation is mediated by a novel pathway whereby TSP1 induces the up-regulation of Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CTGF). Therefore, to assess whether our in vitro and in vivo observations can be extrapolated to human disease, blood samples were collected from 20 patients afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis and 13 from healthy donors which served as the negative control. Plasma samples were separated and analyzed by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) to determine the levels of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), protrombin F1+2 fragments (F1+2) and thrombospondin-1, and by multiplexed cytokine protein profiling on microarray by rolling-circle amplification (RCA) to determine cytokine levels. The F1+2 plasma levels showed an elevated trend in the RA group (p=0.06). TSP1 plasma levels were significantly increased in the RA group compared to the normal control (p=0.0004). Pro-inflammatory cytokine levels including IL-1β (p=0.0365), IL-6 (p=0.0029), TNF-α (p=0.0339), interferon-inducible protein 10 (p=0.0003) and macrophage inflammatory protein -1α (p=0.0012) were found elevated in the RA group compared to the normal control group. Some regulatory cytokines such as transforming growth factor-β (0.06), interferon-gamma (p=0.06) and IL-13 (p=0.22) showed no statistically significance between groups, but all of them showed a trend for higher circulation levels in plasma in the RA group. In summary, comparison between normal individuals and RA patients showed an increase in the levels of cytokines in the RA afflicted patients confirming what has been reported in the literature. We were able to correlate an increase in proteolytic factors and TSP1 levels in the RA patients with an increase of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Further studies are needed to elucidate why TSP1 acts as a pro-inflammatory molecule on the neutrophil surface of the RA patients.


2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 1481-1484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng He ◽  
Lijun Liu ◽  
Wenping Qiao ◽  
Shusheng Zhang

The SPR and QCM aptasensors combined with RCA, AuNP enhancement, and sandwich assay format have been applied to detect the human α-thrombin for the first time.


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